Winning Through Culture

“It’s a lot more fun to see people build upon their strengths and find success, than to flounder in weaknesses.” – Jarod Latch

In this episode, Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer are joined by Jarod Latch. Jarod is the co-founder and COO of Spiracle Media, which has been selected four times as one of Charlotte Business Journal’s Best Places to Work. Spiracle has continued to thrive since it was founded in 2011, despite the impact of COVID-19. Spiracle relentlessly strives to bring its partners and employees real value. As Jarod mentions in this conversation, this can only be accomplished by intentionally cultivating a culture that builds employees up. Jarod says the belief in family and quality of life for his employees are the core principles of the company. And a positive customer experience starts with an employee who truly feels valued.

Choosing positivity is another core value of the company. It is important to focus on strengths of the team rather than weaknesses. Building on strengths and working to succeed together should be a collective goal. Jarod adds value to his team by taking them on company retreats to promote bonding and togetherness beyond the workplace. Jarod surrounds himself with individuals that are going to push him to not only clearly define his personal and professional goals but to also take calculated measures to achieve those goals.

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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The Best Places to Work mini-series (BPtW) starts here. In this first of the BPtW episodes, we discuss:

The segments from this episode are from the full conversation with T.J. McCullough: Cultivating Culture in a Post COVID-19 World

T.J. McCullough is the Market President and Publisher at Charlotte Business Journal. The Charlotte Business Journal is The number one source of business news and events in the Charlotte area. This media company is part of the American City Business Journals network.

About BPtW from the Charlotte Business Journal (CBJ):

CBJ’s signature Best Places to Work Awards program seeks to highlight companies that have the perks, practices and policies to attract — and keep — top talent. (source)

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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Cultivating the “ability to discern the essential from the noise”. – Jordan Raynor

In this episode of Winning Through Culture, Tim Flanagan is joined by Christian entrepreneur, Jordan Raynor. Jordan is a best-selling author whose works include The Creator in You, Redeeming Your Time, Master of One, and Called to Create. In addition, he hosts the podcast “Mere Christians” and he has a weekly devotional series called “The Word Before Work”. Jordan is the former CEO of Threshold 360 and a two-time Google Fellow.

Jordan Raynor is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs become “purposeful, present, and wildly productive”. He believes that entrepreneurial work really matters for eternity. In this episode, Jordan discusses setting healthy boundaries when it comes to balancing home and work life. And most importantly, Jordan strives to emulate the example of Jesus Christ in everything that he does.

Key Takeaways:

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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Building a great business for a greater purpose with Buck Jacobs.

In this episode of Winning Through Culture, Tim Flanagan is joined by Buck Jacobs, founder of C12 Group, LLC. Tim and Buck provide Winning Through Culture listeners with an honest and in-depth look at what it takes to truly align your business culture with your faith. Buck is a proponent of pushing the envelope with boldness when it comes to sharing his testimony. He credits his daily routine with keeping him spiritually connected. He also expresses gratitude for the mentors in his life that helped him further his faith.

Buck Jacobs is passionate about aligning his faith with his business practices. Buck is a family man and business leader who at 84 years old, says he is still learning. He also believes it is important to “encourage an attitude of gratitude and generosity” in the workplace. This attitude opens doors of opportunity to share the message with others.

Buck has authored the following books:

A Light Shines Bright in Babylon – A Handbook for Christian Business Owners

A Strategic Plan for Ministry

The Parable of The Janitor and the CEO

The Most Important Hour: Continuing the Journey

About C12:

C12 is not a business bible study or a Christian business networking group. It’s an architected environment for business, life, and leadership transformation. Designed exclusively for Christian CEOs and executives, the C12 format helps you calibrate the entirety of your business by providing a framework and format to evaluate and align to the focus areas in our signature 5-Point Alignment Matrix: revenue generation, operations management, financial management, organizational development, and ministry in and through the business. (source: C12)

Key Takeaways:

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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“Open and effective communication are keys to developing respect in business.” – Charlie Leichtweis

In this episode, Tim Flanagan is joined by Charlie Leichtweis. Charlie is the founder of Experts in HOW, LLC which is a business consulting firm that helps organizations cultivate respect in business to create a winning and sustainable culture. Charlie not only produces results for his clients, but he also promotes relationships by actively listening, a process he calls listening longer. He helps define clear objectives for those around him, while also developing practical strategies to mitigate challenges.

Charlie is the author of The Power of Respect and he also hosts a podcast by the same name. He is also the author of the book Qlikview Your Business. He has 30 years of business experience at some top companies including CEO and President of The Testor Corporation, COO of North American Wholesale Group of Blyth Inc., CFO of Rand McNally Book Services, and CFO and Comptroller of Rust-Oleum Corp.

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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“Could you leave for six months?” As a business owner, would you feel confident that your business is still functioning and even thriving in your absence? 

In this episode, Tim Flanagan is joined by Jason Goldy. Jason is the president of one of MassMutual’s internal divisions that work with closely-held businesses. Jason helps business owners identify their goals while honoring the existing culture or enhancing the culture that is desired. Ultimately, business owners want to stay impactful and relevant in business succession which leads Jason to help these owners in “the search for significance” in retirement. To do so, cultivating a culture that lends itself to longevity beyond that of the individual business owner is of utmost importance in the work Jason does.

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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Taking the necessary steps to close the racial wealth gap. A podcast conversation with the leaders of J&G Legacy Financial Group, Jabbar Jamison and Centario Grier.

This is a Winning Through Culture Greatest Hits episode!

In this episode of Winning Through Culture, Tim Flanagan chats with Jabbar Jamison and Centario Grier. Together, Jabbar and Centario formed a partnership that is J&G Legacy Financial Group. They share a passion for serving the black community in achieving their financial goals. And in that passion, J&G Legacy Group is working to close the racial wealth gap that exists. Conversations on that topic are critical. And having the opportunity to have this conversation with successful advisors supporting the black community is something we feel is essential. Jabbar and Centario credit their success to the fact that they have built trust with those they help — this trust provides a sense of comfort to the client. And that comfort leads to referrals within the community that they are proud to serve.

Book Mentioned in this podcast: Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy By: Maggie Anderson & Ted Gregory (2013)

Key Takeaways:

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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“Generating business referrals without asking.” 

This is a Winning Through Culture Greatest Hits episode!

In this episode of Winning Through Culture, Tim Flanagan is joined by Stacey Randall. Stacey shares humbling stories of past business failures that enabled her to find the vision of creating a culture to generate new business without asking. She even wrote the book on it, literally. She is the author of the 2018 award-winning book, Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, “A Simple Five-Step Plan to a Referral Explosion.”

Stacey is also the host of the podcast, Roadmap To Grow Your Business

Tim and Stacey provide WTC listeners with a thought-provoking conversation that is only deepened by their connection as former co-workers in the financial industry. Stacey recognizes that every step along the way was a building block to future success. And in that, she credits her faith and her family as primary driving factors in her overall success. 

About the book, Generating Business Referrals Without Asking:

Every business needs referrals from satisfied clients. A good referral can lead to a closed sale faster and easier than any other lead. But let’s face it. Asking for referrals can be awkward. And asking is often ineffective. That’s why Stacey Brown Randall developed a method of getting referrals – without asking. In her book Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, she shares her system for revolutionizing any business. Her structured approach reduces the hustle and increases productivity and profit. With Randall’s system, you can stop wasting time and money marketing to cold leads and stalking would-be clients on social media. And you can start doing what you love most – providing the excellent service that made you go into business in the first place. In Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, you’ll get Randall’s five steps to steady business growth, case studies from business professionals, and a step-by-step roadmap that even the busiest business owner can implement. (source: Amazon)

Key Takeaways:

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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This Retired Navy Seal realized during his transition from military service to entrepreneur he needed to gain back the sense of identity and culture that he had while serving our country.

This is a Winning Through Culture Greatest Hits episode!

In this episode, we discuss culture with Retired Navy SEAL Thom Shea. Thom served with the U.S. Navy for 23 years with distinguished valor before writing his bestselling book, “Unbreakable: A Navy Seal’s Way of Life” and his latest release, “Three Simple Things: Leading During Chaos.” As founder of Unbreakable Leadership, Thom has trained thousands of people around the world to overcome chaos by applying the rule of Three Simple Things to their lives and businesses.

Thom developed his leadership process and methods during his military career where he served in three wars, ultimately leading a team of SEALs into Afghanistan in 2009. There he earned a Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor, Army Commendation with Valor, and his second Combat Action Medal. He was later hand-selected to serve as Officer In Charge of the famed SEAL Sniper course. 

Today, Thom trains leaders to lead at home, at work, and in their personal lives.

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In today’s ever-changing world, it is more important than ever for an entrepreneur to stay impactful and relevant.

That’s where Winning Through Culture comes in! This podcast will let you inside the dynamic minds of Tim Flanagan and Amanda Kramer to give you expertise, insight, and tips so that you can remain impactful and relevant.

With Tim and Amanda’s experience and desire to plant knowledge in the business leaders around them, we hope you will take this podcast into your everyday life as an upcoming entrepreneur.

This genuine content will provide you with opportunities, relationships, and a community to expand your personal and professional growth.

Let’s create a winning culture together!

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